Nadia Röthlisberger

In 2002 Nadia Röthlisberger-Raspe played on the first Swiss women’s curling team, which won a silver medal at the Olympics, losing the final narrowly to Great British team, 4-3. From 1999 to 2004 she took part at three World Curling Championships, winning silver in 2000 and bronze in 2004, and three European Curling Championships, winning bronze medals in 1999 and 2001 and a silver medal in 2003.

Röthlisberger played for the Curling Club in Bern, where her husband worked as an ice master. After her active career she was, between 2007 and 2010, head coach of the Swiss wheelchair curling team, with whom she immediately won World Championship silver and whom she also coached at the Paralympics in Vancouver in 2010. She also worked at a kitchen manufacturer. Röthlisberger-Raspe died at the age of only 42 of bone cancer.